Knowledge Base: Creating your repository

Now you have an account, it’s time to create your repository.

• Log into your account and navigate to the Repositories tab on your dashboard. If this is your first repository with Beanstalk, you’ll be prompted on your dashboard to create a repository .

• Click the Create Repository button

Here you will be directed to a page to set up your repository name and URL. Be careful typing in your URL, it cannot be changed. Next you can set up your repository structure. There are four different options in which you can import your files.

Option 1: Create the repository from scratch

Option 2: Import svnadmin repository dump

This is another method of importing files to Beanstalk if you have already used Subversion. You cannot include archived files in this method. To learn more about creating a dump file, read this article first.

Option 3: Import a working copy

This option is to import a directory of files you already have on your local machine. The structure you set up will be preserved. The files need to be archived into one folder.